"New recording of lute music Girolamo Giovanni Kapsberger. The composer, of Austrian descent, settled in Rome in the beginning of the 17th century, and became a highly influential and famous virtuoso on the lute. In his compositions for this instrument Kapsberger embraced the new style, the "Stilus Phantasticus", characterized by spontaneous changes, sharp contrasts, unusual rhythmic groupings, and in general a great feeling of freedom."

"Monteverdi's Sixth Book of Madrigals (1614) is significant for including both traditional polyphonic and stile nuove concerted madrigals. In his booklet-notes, Rinaldo Alessandrini points out that this is also a 'book of partings': many of the madrigals seem to have been written much earlier than the published date, at a time when Monteverdi suffered the loss of his wife Claudia and his live-in pupil, the singer Caterina Martinelli."

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